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...outcry for cheap money failed to stampede President Roosevelt. Nobody was more ready than he to admit that his whole recovery program was experimental, that some parts of it worked better than others, that knots and kinks were inevitable. He was not discouraged by last week's slack-off. If one method of relief failed, he was willing to shift nimbly to something else, improvising as he went along. Currency inflation he still regarded as a last resort, to be used only in the event of a major business relapse. He did not propose to waste his best ammunition...
...Brooklyn Trust Co.] made an analysis of all applications for business loans ranging from $2,000 upwards received during the first eight months of this year. . . . We found that the demand for business credit had shrunk 50% from the corresponding period in the preceding year-which was itself a slack period. We also found that we had granted 81% of all the business credit applied for. ... I want to suggest that other bankers analyze all of their policies ... be prepared to answer critics with facts. . . . 'That every bank should sell stock to the R. F. C. is sheer nonsense...
...minimum wage in all big-city plants. The average work week was set at 35 hours. Because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production provision was made that employes might be worked a maximum of 48 hours a week during such periods so long as time during slack periods was scaled down to keep the average. Office help was put on about the same minimum basis as the President's Re-employment Agreement-40 hours a week...
Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...
Meanwhile the purest peace reigned in the palace of King Carol. No voice had risen to connect him in any way with the Skoda scandal, and his slack-chinned younger brother Prince Nicholas suddenly decided that a year and a half of morganatic marriage with svelte Jana Lucia Deletz was enough (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931,). Following the promptings of Queen Mother Marie he cast Jana aside last week, made peace with King Carol, arranged to return to Bucharest, resume his royal rank...